Molly,

What you have to understand is that the actual clinical depression that she is going through is normal. Remember that she has just had an intimate brush with death. The acute realization that our existence here is transitory is a difficult thing for people to come to terms with. We like to think that it is always someone else who dies in the car accident, or of cancer, but experiences like these make us realize that we are frail and mortal creatures. This idea while we understand it intellectually, in reality takes some getting used to. From my own personal experience, being the classic egocentric, macho male tough guy, getting cut down to size by cancer really took the wind out of my emotional sails. Mid recovery after radiation treatments, I cried on a daily basis, but I couldn